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Re: [help-texinfo] is there a "Gits Guide" to debugging a texinfo file p
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Rick Jones |
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Re: [help-texinfo] is there a "Gits Guide" to debugging a texinfo file problem? |
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Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:57:34 -0800 |
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Karl Berry wrote:
Hi Rick,
I have the netperf manual in texinfo format:
Cool.
http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/doc/netperf.texi
You mean http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/trunk/doc/netperf.texi
I assume. (I've left /trunk out of more url's than I care to remember. :)
Grrr. Yes. :)
and somehow between revision 92 of that file, and revision 103
Can you send the file as it existed in those two revisions?
Might be a triffle large to send. However, if I'm lucky, some of the
tags may be good enough, just a second...
OK:
http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/tags/netperf-2.4.3/doc/netperf.texi
matches the overall revision 92 version. There is no tagged version
that equals revision 103 but:
http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/tags/netperf-2.4.4/doc/netperf.texi
is beyond that version and still has the problem.
I have managed to do something that causes it to "drop" "Using
Netperf to Measure Aggregate performance" when I C-u C-c C-u m in
emacs (21 or 22). I'm presently at a loss as to what I may have
done and was wondering if there were some handy debugging guide?
I'm afraid not. The only tactic that comes to mind is the usual --
simplify the file as much as it existed.
I was afraid of that. I've never really understood how the texinfo
syntax was supposed to work, I was only ever just bluffing my way
through it :(
Looking at the file, one thing that comes to mind is to drop the
pointers off all the @node lines (so they contain just the name of the
node). I am doubtful that it will help, but at least it is a
simplification (and makes searches in the source less painful).
The theory being that the existing previous next and up "links" may be
confusing things? Sorry if that is an obvious question.
thanks,
rick
Another possibility if we can't get it is to ask address@hidden; the
Texinfo support in Elisp is maintained there, these days. Lots more
Emacs hackers hang out there than here. (I'm sure they will appreciate
seeing the two versions too.)
Best,
Karl